With a travel "beaten" team, a team that has basically been flying around the country for 3 weeks to practice and play footabll, I cannot believe and have expressed extreme disapproval with Brees playing most of the first half of last night's game.

NFL teams start their starting offense during the first half of the 3rd preseason game. That means Drew and company will probably play the entire first half of next week's game. Why play them most of the first half of the 2nd preseason game?

Vitt's insistence on playing offensive starters last night until practically halftime shows poor judgement. Sure, o-line should play... they should practice blocking and running game, etc. etc. But why would we risk injury to our most valuable player on the team is beyond me.

While I totally agree with you, every other team in the league has kept their starting QB in the game for the first half of the game this week.

Someone else mentioned it, and I agree 1000%. The man and his wife just had a baby. Anybody who's been through that knows that it'll wear a couple out, and no offense to the ladies, but there's a lot of stress on the man too.

So that, coupled with the fact that Drew doesn't need an entire half of work, combined with what Halo said about being road-weary, Drew should have never even been on the field in my humble opinion.

He just got paid $100 million. his stress levels outside of football should be non existent. I know he is not worried about how he is going to pay for the hospital bill or if he can buy diapers before his next pay check

I'm guessing you don't have kids, man. Having a baby is a huge deal and if you haven't had one, or been close to someone who had one, then you don't know. You could have $1 or $100 million in the bank, it doesn't matter -- it is still one of the biggest, most stressful events that can happen in a person's life.

He gets paid(a lot) to play.